Top 100 Donnie Quotes
#1. One thing I've always been grateful for is the diversity of my listeners.
Donnie Simpson
#2. There's a real danger in doing a sequel. There are some benefits, but that all hinges on how well you execute. Quite frankly, most sequels don't execute well.
Donnie Wahlberg
#3. Since the day I got in radio at the age of 15, I always wanted everyone with ears listening to me. I don't know how to narrow that down.
Donnie Simpson
#4. I think a lot of people don't realize that martial arts are just an expression like anything else. It's just that most people are not trained to punch or kick, but you can walk or run or dance, which is also part of expression.
Donnie Yen
#5. I don't know what the answer is, but I'm very blessed and lucky to have made a good living doing what I've loved to do. I just hope I can do another one after this.
Donnie Fritts
#6. I loved working on 'Donnie Darko.' I learned a lot from the cast, Jake Gyllenhaal and the producers. I love doing what I do because I get to meet so many great people.
Daveigh Chase
#8. I got your head noddin' cuz your neck knows it's phat.
Donnie Lewis
#9. You can't control what people gravitate to and what they don't. We can only control the work that we do and try to give it the best that we can.
Donnie Wahlberg
#10. I've always felt that people's ears are wider than programmers are ever wiling to give them credit for. It's always been very important to me that you not have to turn me off because your kids are in the back seat.
Donnie Simpson
#11. I always used to wonder why American actors were getting fat, then I made a U.S. movie. I'm seeing all the food every day, and there's lots of waiting around because making an American movie is very slow.
Donnie Yen
#12. At Christmas our house is like a Donnie and Marie Christmas Special.
Kevin Richardson
#13. For me, the challenge of a period film is that, unlike a contemporary film where the character can be very free-form when it comes to the acting, there's a burden to acting in a period film because you have to stay within the character's historical background and the gestures of certain periods.
Donnie Yen
#14. Look at every action movie in Hollywood. Every leading man from Spider-Man to Batman to James Bond, 'Bourne Identity', every one of them possesses martial arts skills.
Donnie Yen
#15. I try to ground most of my characters in reality somehow. That's kind of what I bring to the table.
Donnie Wahlberg
#16. I'm the guy who does his job. You must be the other guy.
Donnie Wahlberg
#17. I think getting the rest of the guys in the band to write is important.
Donnie Iris
#18. I wasn't exactly uncomfortable when I did my first comedy. I was just very aware of the risks; if you do a comedy that sucks, and you suck in it, then you won't get a chance to do it again.
Donnie Wahlberg
#19. When New Kids became really successful, I got a lot of offers to do parts in movies and TV shows, but I was really busy, so I pretty much turned everything down. But I always knew it was something that I would eventually put some energy into.
Donnie Wahlberg
#20. In Hong Kong, particularly, we craft this art for decades. The action choreographer actually is the action director. He takes over and he choreographs with - by himself or with his team, and place the camera where he feels cinematic effect to bring out that choreography.
Donnie Yen
#21. When audiences look at an action actor like myself, sometimes we are very easily stereotyped or characterized as one type. They forget that we are actors, too.
Donnie Yen
#22. I still like the stuff from the old days: Marvin Gaye, Donnie Hathaway.
Joe Cocker
#23. If you're playing a cop in a modern film, you don't have to walk with your spine straight up and bow before a fight. There's a lot of free form of expressing yourself as an actor.
Donnie Yen
#25. For young filmmakers, Saw is a perfect film. It doesn't cost the GNP of almost every country of the world.
Donnie Wahlberg
#26. Bruce is the man. He was definitely ahead of his time.
Donnie Yen
#27. We're all proud of you, Donnie. Your mother and me, Katie - " "Right," I snorted. "She said I'm dumber than her bladder-challenged dog.
Gordon Korman
#28. I really loved Michelangelo. I've always been a little partial to Donatello to be honest, especially with the animated series. There's just something about Donnie that I really like. But, you know, Mikey's also Mikey. It's kind of just a given he's the most fun one.
Noel Fisher
#29. I guess some of us are just born with Tragedy in our blood
Richard Kelly
#30. Your resolve is unquestionable. Your character undeniable. Your history unparalleled. You've inspired us, all the way. You will again today.
Donnie Wahlberg
#31. Backstreet Boys fans don't want to hear the New Kids singing all of their hits. Just like our fans don't want to hear the Backstreet Boys singing all of our hits.
Donnie Wahlberg
#32. It's a poor frog that doesn't praise his own pond! - Donnie McClurkin
Donnie McClurkin
#33. Life has abundant treasures, when your settings are on right.
Donnie Simpson
#34. My action follows my characters. If a character is a cop, you cannot be posing all the time, you cannot fly off the roof because it doesn't make any sense - it's not practical.
Donnie Yen
#35. For me, shooting, editing, and scoring rely on rhythm.
Donnie Yen
#36. I love the rush of being creative. I really think I live for it.
Donnie Wahlberg
#37. I love working with older actors because number one, I can learn so much from them because they have so much experience. And it's fun to hear their stories from their era, some of the jokes.
Donnie Yen
#38. I can always see something of myself in the characters I play.
Donnie Wahlberg
#39. What then is worship? Here's the definition I came up with: worship is the inner attitude of a redeemed heart that is reaching toward God in love, awe, trust and gratitude.
Donnie Brannen
#40. I go wild on a stage. Some folks have measured us an image. They pretend us to be saints. And that image is much tougher to keep up with. Because that's not who we are.
Donnie Wahlberg
#41. I just like to choose projects that will allow me as an artist to make my art.
Donnie Yen
#42. Doing a movie is a stressful thing. You spend months of you life focusing into that one project, and I want to make sure I do something I really like or I'm really passionate about.
Donnie Yen
#43. 'Donnie Darko' was my first audition ever! It opened my eyes to the possibilities within camera work.
Jolene Purdy
#44. I was in Hollis' band for eight years, playing drums. At one time we had Barry Beckett, Jimmy Johnson, David Hood - everybody but Roger Hawkins. We had a hell of a band.
Donnie Fritts
#46. I don't remember Sherlock Holmes ever mentioning what you are supposed to do when you've eliminated everything improbable, and nothing is left.
Donnie Eichar
#47. Personally, I prefer contemporary films, but the market calls for more period choices, especially since China opened up a cinema market in Hong Kong. There's a lot of restriction for contemporary films simply because of subject matter.
Donnie Yen
#49. A lot of kids do look up to us. But there are just as many elderly people to put us down.
Donnie Wahlberg
#50. I've always thought of myself as being extremely lucky. The idea is to keep that luck going. Headlining the Stanley was a real kick. I think it's the type of thing I could get used to.
Donnie Iris
#51. Better to be called something positive and inspirational than something negative.
Donnie Yen
#52. Nobody comes out of their mother's womb doing cucarachas.
Donnie Burns
#53. As long as you have those brilliant songs, it didn't matter how bad you played, or how bad he sang on 'em sometimes. It was one of those magical things that really worked, and I don't think could ever happen again.
Donnie Fritts
#54. I spent a couple of years doing American films. I did a few.
Donnie Yen
#55. I was wanting to do an album but I didn't know if I was really ready. Jerry Wexler was one of my closest friends and allies, like my godfather. He said, "Let's do an album." I couldn't sing worth a damn, but there were some good songs.
Donnie Fritts
#56. Donnie and Marie can both take a bite.
Frank Zappa
#57. I don't think radio has to be sectioned off where you listen to the music for your generation and your son listens to the music for his generation.
Donnie Simpson
#58. I try to update my arsenal constantly. Learning different martial arts since childhood. To understand what's out there. To really be in tune.
Donnie Yen
#59. For a Bostonian ... we live in the shadow of New York, and to be acknowledged by New Yorkers is really the greatest feeling.
Donnie Wahlberg
#60. I think every actor wants to try out different things.
Donnie Yen
#61. We have about 4 million people who have voted for who they want to see in the Hall of Fame. There are some people they put down that are pretty good players. You have Ray Guy, Jim Plunkett, Lester Hayes and Donnie Shell.
Gale Sayers
#62. Mark Wahlberg, when I was in high school, people were like, 'You look like Marky Mark!' Then as I got older, they were like, 'You look like Donnie Wahlberg.' Now they're like, 'You look like Donnie Wahlberg's cousin from Massachusetts.'
Ike Barinholtz
#63. I have always been able to move on musically. I've always been able to make all generations dance and love.
Donnie Simpson
#64. I don't sleep very much. I really like to work, though. I feel like a kid in a candy store.
Donnie Wahlberg
#65. I find it kind of funny. I find it kind of sad. The dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had.
Tears For Fears
#66. With the Internet, kids today learn things quicker than we do and they have everything there is to see, so you have to do more than just remake some old '70s film.
Donnie Wahlberg
#67. As an action director, I always try to bring something fresh and new.
Donnie Yen
#68. It's not hard to keep up the image we chose. It's not hard to stay yourselves.
Donnie Wahlberg
#69. It's not an issue. Everyone's focused on us trying to get a victory. That's where the focus lies ... We're trying to win a game. Who cares about that (other stuff). If we'd played 'em two years ago when it happened, maybe it would be different.
Donnie Edwards
#70. Donnie Green himself had been a trader at Salomon Brothers in the dark ages, when traders had more hair on their chests than on their heads.
Michael Lewis
#71. My mum lives in Boston; she's famous for teaching wushu and t'ai chi. So from when I was young, my mum and aunt were like: 'You're training; you're not playing baseball or football.' Training every day was normal. Later, when I was almost a teenager, Bruce Lee became my idol.
Donnie Yen
#72. I've always had control of what I played on the air. I have always had very open ears.
Donnie Simpson
#74. I guess I'm pretty lucky because in childhood I studied so many martial arts styles and I never stopped researching them, my body is very adjustable and I can turn into different expressions with my body.
Donnie Yen
#75. The best relationship student -teacher is in knowing who is right for you and who you are right for.
Donnie Burns
#76. I act according to the requirements of the character, and if I try to play the role, then I play it truthfully. In my daily life, I'm a laid-back, peaceful guy. I'm just doing my job to act.
Donnie Yen
#77. For me, I like to have explosive moments, whether it is a particular movement itself in the whole sequence. I like to have shocking moments; for audiences to feel, like, 'Whoa!' It's always been my forte.
Donnie Yen
#78. It couldn't be the beer. Donnie McRory was certain of that. If you sent American beer out to be analyzed, the lab would probably phone up and say, 'Your horse has diabetes.
Sharyn McCrumb
#79. I got to keep it tight like seams,
Cause ain't no fiends
Comin' in between me and my dreams,
See what I mean, black?
Donnie Lewis
#80. Also, there's the caliber of actors that we keep getting. Lorraine Bracco plays my mom and Chazz Palminteri plays my father, and Brian Dennehy and Donnie Wahlberg have been on the show. And, we've got Billy Burke from Twilight. We've gotten all kinds of fantastic actors. That speaks for itself.
Angie Harmon
#81. They watched as the Shaw brothers played tug of war with a crocodile over what Travis would guess was a nine-point buck. The buck was still kicking, too, but that didn't stop the brothers or the croc.
"I'm sensing the crazy gene, hoss," Donnie mumbled.
"Ya think?
Shelly Laurenston
#82. If you fail to prepare you prepare to fail.
Donnie Burns
#83. I think action movies bring more excitement than tears, but I always want to take it to another level. I mean, I think if one appreciates anything in life to a certain degree, it could possibly bring tears to your eyes.
Donnie Yen
#84. I want people to come see my films and enjoy them, but at the end of the day you can't control what people think.
Donnie Wahlberg
#85. It doesn't matter to me if it has a surprise ending or not. I usually go for the material or the project.
Donnie Wahlberg
#86. I've got troubled thoughts and the self-esteem to match. What a catch.
Fall Out Boy
#87. I love food shows: Anthony Bourdain, Iron Chef, Chopped, you name it.
Donnie Wahlberg
#88. When red wine has you nailed to the sofa and Glee is on TV,that would be a good time for a jet engine to crash through your ceiling alla Donnie Darko.
M.P. Thorp
#89. There is also a strong following among the urbanites on the East Coast when it comes to martial arts films.
Donnie Yen
#90. There are two types of Chinese growing up in America. One is the kind that does really well in school, with thick, thick glasses. And the other is involved with the gangs.
Donnie Yen
#91. John Paul to give me a shot, I'll never forget as long as I live.
Donnie Fritts
#92. Martial art is a form of expression, an expression from your inner self to your hands and legs.
Donnie Yen
#94. A good dancer changes the way dancing was thought after he left the floor.
Donnie Burns
#95. Donnie Brasco was great, but the energy on the set made it kinda hard to get in there and have an opinion.
Gretchen Mol
#96. Practice means cutting down chance and risk.
Donnie Burns
#97. A good leader brins the lady partner dance level to a superior level.
Donnie Burns
#98. I didnt get arrested to show off my wild character. People say its a gimmick for all five of us to be different. Thats ridiculous.
Donnie Wahlberg
#99. A lot of Chinese martial arts films were based on Chinese martial arts novels. And these novels created a world of putting history, calligraphy, and martial arts into one.
Donnie Yen
#100. I like it when she's shiny, like a star, like a guest on the Donnie and Marie Show.
Augusten Burroughs
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